Jesse McLean

Remote will screen as part of Migrating Forms in NY, NY and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Updates on screening time/date to follow!

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The first AIVA 2012, Angelholm International Video Art Festival will take place in April 2012 and the main purpose of the festival is the free presentation, promotion and development of international video art and to create a new, alternative, peripheral meeting point for emerging and established video and media artists from all over the world. The festival will run for three days, from April 26th – 28th.

We hope to bring the Northwestern region of Scania in Sweden clearer on the map, both nationally and internationally, as a vivid scene of video art.
It is supposed to be a recurring event in addition to art offers cultural meetings that attract conversation about video art and its position in contemporary art.

In addition to screenings & installations of video art and performances, the festival invites international guest curators to curate programs of video art from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. These programs will be exhibited as projections in containers placed in the main square.

YOUNGPROJECTS
Would like to congratulate the following artists for participating in AIVA:
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Adam Frelin, Cal Crawford, Federico Solmi, Lewis Klahr, William Lamson, Hironaka & Suib, Jimmy Joe Roche, Adam Leech, Jillian McDonald, Brian Butler, Jesse McLean and Jon Rafman

The festival in Ängelholm, Sweden opens next week

http://aivafestival.com/

Curators: Rob Garrett – NEW ZEALAND – AUSTRALIA / Gye-joong Kim – ASIA / Paul Young – NORTH AMERICA / Kika Nicolela – SOUTH AMERICA / Kisito Assangni – SOUTH AMERICA / Gabriel Soucheyre – EUROPE
Main Curator: Anders Weberg

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I don’t usually post about my teaching practice, but I’m very excited about the Video Installation course I’ve been teaching at University of Illinois at Chicago. Here is a link to Gallery 400′s blog, featuring a post that describes a recent project/exhibition., DVD as Self-Portrait.

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Interstate Projects (Tom Weinrich) has curated my piece Relations into SPRING/BREAK Art Show, happening in NYC March 6-11. This show sounds really fun and cool. Here’s a little more about it.

Welcome to SPRING/BREAK Art Show, the new curator-driven art fair during the Armory Arts Week.  The fair will inhabit Old School, a four-story schoolhouse located in NoLIta from March 6^th – March 11^th, 2012.

Featuring the projects of 23 curators, the show will abandon the traditional focus on galleries – offering a “break” from the typical art fair model – and showcase a range of New York City’s curatorial voices, all surrounding a single exhibition theme - Apocalist: A Brief History of The End.

Utilizing over 20 classrooms, hallways, and unique areas in one of the city’s oldest schoolhouses, new art works will be on display, arranged by curators representing the more recent creative contributions of the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, Gowanus, and Bushwick. Apocalist, the inaugural fair’s curatorial theme as described by Andrew Gori and Ambre Kelly, the co-founders of The They Co. and SPRING/BREAK Art Show, ‘aims to elucidate the sense of direction, disorder, celebration, or disdain generated by real or invented global or personal assumptions of calamity.’

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I strongly encourage you to pick up your copy of Incite #3 – New Ages (go to link for ordering details). This latest issue contains lots of terrific contributors including Thomas Beard, Brian L. Frye, Shana Moulton and many, many more! Also included is a conversation between Jacob Ciocci and myself. Plus Jacob created the beautiful cover. Very excited to get my copy…

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I was excited to be a part of Society of the Spectacular, curated by Jake Myers of The Octagon but held at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago, IL. The show includes a line-up of terrific artists.

January 14 – 27
Reception + Performances: January 27

Simulated realities, virtual landscapes and digital social networks strongly shape our daily experiences and what we perceive as reality.

Society of the Spectacular is an exhibition about our constant connection with the hyperreal.

visual simulacra:
Theo Darst
Eric Fleischauer
Todd Mattei
Jesse McLean
Aaron Orsini
Steve Ruiz
Adam Rux
Morgan Sims
Doug Smithenry

musical stimuli:
Volcano
American Draft
Turntable.fm

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I was interviewed by Jesse Malmed for Bad at Sports , you can find the interview here. It’s really an in-depth look into my work and practice, thanks to Jesse for all his insightful and thought-provoking questions!

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My latest video, Remote will screen at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in late January 2012. I will be in attendance and can’t wait to see all the films and mix it up in the Netherlands.

Specific details regarding the program to follow soon…

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I was interviewed for Art Uncovered, a weekly online radio show on BreakThru Radio that features interviews with emerging and established artists and curators. Thanks, Thomas!

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